Makers of Modern India

Makers of Modern India

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 0674052463

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Includes a short biographical introduction to each person, followed by excerpts from their writings.


Nine Lives

Nine Lives

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-06-07

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1408801248

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A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE


Makers of Modern Asia

Makers of Modern Asia

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-08-29

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 0674365410

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The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems.


Lokamanya Tilak, Father of Indian Unrest and Maker of Modern India

Lokamanya Tilak, Father of Indian Unrest and Maker of Modern India

Author: D V Tahmankar

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781013411526

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Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha

Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha

Author: Kumar Himansu Madhukar

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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A liberal social revolutionary, atenacious fighter, a zealous crusader fighting a battle against the challenging problems, as an administrator, a legislator and a statesman. An encyclopaedic mind, as that of Dr Sinha to which nothing was ever amiss. The book views him as a legend and his political and constitutional struggle as a landmark in the history of Indian Nationalism.


Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Author: Mytheli Sreenivas

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2021-05-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0295748850

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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.


India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Author: Ramachandra Guha

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2017-07-13

Total Pages: 871

ISBN-13: 1509883282

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Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.


Lokmanya Tilak – A Biography

Lokmanya Tilak – A Biography

Author: A.K. Bhagwat & G.P. Pradhan

Publisher: Jaico Publishing House

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 606

ISBN-13: 8179928462

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Foreword by DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN Former President of India “SWARAJ IS MY BIRTHRIGHT, AND I SHALL HAVE IT!” This biography of Lokmanya Tilak was written in collaboration by Prof. A.K. Bhagwat and Prof. G.P. Pradhan in 1956, the birth-centenary year of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The book was awarded a prize in the All India Competition held under the auspices of the All India Congress Committee. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan had written the foreword to this biography.


Modern India

Modern India

Author: Vivekananda Swami

Publisher: Advaita Ashrama

Published: 2016-03-20

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 8175058188

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In studying Indian history, people often fail to find out the real soul of India, and as a result, their labour bears very little fruit. In this booklet published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication centre of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, the author, whose love for his motherland was very deep and whose life stood like a mighty colossus pointing with one hand to the past and with another to the future of India, gives in a nutshell the undercurrent of Indian history, politics, and sociology. Note: This book has some Sanskrit text with embedded Devanagiri fonts. Kindly use the 'Original' font option in Google Play Books app.